Tag: UN Decolonization Committee (C24)

• Tuesday, June 18th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

  Falklands, Liberation Day, Normandy heroes and awards in the King's Birthday Honors List

  

  June is a most poignant month for the Falkland Islands since on the 14th, the community commemorates the Liberation of the Islands in 1982 after 74 days of occupation by Argentine forces.

• Friday, June 14th 2024 - 08:10 UTC

  Falklands delegation in US to address decolonization Committee 18th June

  

  The Falkland Islands Legislative Assembly is pleased to share that MLAs Teslyn Barkman and Gavin Short have been in Washington D.C as part of a small Falklands Delegation since Sunday, June 9th, ahead of the UN Committee of 24 on Decolonization on the 18th of June.

• Tuesday, June 11th 2024 - 10:44 UTC

  First female Gibraltar minister addresses UN Decolonization Committee

  

  Gibraltar Health and Care Minister, Gemma Arias Vasquez, speaking at United Nations headquarters in New York has told the Decolonization Committee of 24 it has failed to engage with Gibraltar for decades. The UN session started on Monday at 9.30 am in New York.

• Monday, June 26th 2023 - 10:56 UTC

  UK reply to Argentina at OAS, “no dialogue on sovereignty unless the Falkland Islanders wish it”

  

  British Foreign Minister for the Americas and the Caribbean, David Rutley MP gave a statement, on 23 June, to the Organization of America States in response to the Argentine Government's draft declaration on the Falkland Islands:

• Monday, August 15th 2022 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentine diplomatic offensive on Malvinas question in the region

  

  This week Argentina's Malvinas, Antarctica, and South Atlantic Secretary, Guillermo Carmona is off to Brazil where he has scheduled several conferences and to request greater support for Argentina's claim over the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2022 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentina again requests UN Secretary General's good offices in the Malvinas sovereignty dispute

  

  Ahead of his address to the United Nations Special Decolonization Committee, C24, this Thursday, demanding sovereignty talks with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands sovereignty, Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero met on Wednesday with US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  A numerous Argentine multi-party delegation to UN C24, arrives Wednesday to New York

  

  The Argentine government will be claiming this week before the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, or C24, the resumption of negotiations with the United Kingdom for a peaceful solution to the sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands.

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 13:08 UTC

  Falklands: Stop double standards UN says MLA Short

  

  MEMBER of Legislative Assembly Gavin Short called on the United Nations not to have “double standards” when it came to the Falklands while giving a speech during a meeting in St Lucia.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Decolonization C24 Pacific Regional Seminar opens in Saint Lucia

  

  St Lucia Prime Minister Philip J Pierre, will this Wednesday 11th May, formally open a United Nations Seminar on Decolonization, which is to be held at the Sandals Grande Hotel until 13th May 2022.

• Friday, June 25th 2021 - 09:52 UTC

  Game over: C14 resolution ignores Falklands' pleas and again calls for a bilateral dialogue Argentina/UK

  

  The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization, C24, addressed on Thursday the annual Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty question, which once again concluded with an appeal to the governments of Argentina and Britain to resume dialogue with the purpose of finding, in the shortest time possible, a peaceful solution to the controversy.